Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-06
THE OLD TICKET WINS.
ALL OF THE PRESENT COUNTY
OFFICERS REFLECTED.

ALL OF THE PRESENT COUNTY
OFFICERS REFLECTED.
Ms Uorkingmen's Candidates Badly
Haatap-Capt, DfiIon's Msj ority Over
Dooner 7I9-Cspt. Dixon Reelected
Coroner by IS NJ jCity Over Goette-
The Count Finished at O'CLOCK TINS
Morning.
The biennial election for officers OF
Chatham county was held yesterday and
passed off quietly. Two thousand one
hundred votes were polled.
A disagreeable, drizzling rain kept a
good many away from the polls, and had
something to do with the quietness which
marked the day. A heavy vote was not
expected considering the weather, and
the vote that was polled was larger than
was anticipated.
The contests for the Receivership of
Tax Returns and the Coronership made
the election a little lively and Increased
the interest in 1t. The boxes were In the
usual place in the middle Of the corridors
in the court house. All OF the doors were
open, and a strong draft OF air poured
through one way and then seemed TO 90
around to the side doors and pass through
again that way. Some of the voters ala
a somewhat similar thing. They went IN
at one door and voted and then went
around to the sides and tried to vote again.
The managers and clerks sat IN the
dampness, and, although muffied up almost
beyond identification, shivered and shook
all day as the tickets were dropped down
into the boxes.
THEUSUAL CHALLENGING.
n hO, nj Of
challenging The different oondidates
for the contested places worked hard and
had enthusiastic lieutenants at work for
them. At IL O'Clock about 1,2OO votes
had been cast. The YORK street box from
a to + was the most patroniZed and the
Dras ton street box was the least. The
Bull street box q to lOand the President
street box r to z ran about the same.
By the middle of the day ii was evident
that Capt. Dillon was leading his oppo-
nent, MIR. Dooner, and was sure OF cleo
ton.
THE FIGHT FOR CORONER.
BY that time also the fight for the Cor
oner's 81 500 salary had narrowed down to
Capt. Dixon and MIR. Goette-Mr. Fox
being tnen considered out of the race.
Considerable scratching was done for
places which were not contested. som g
of that cutting was accounted for by the
fact that some OF the candidates. friends
wanted to see them run ahead OF other
candidates.
All of the barrooms in the city were
closed, or were supposed to be, and there
was very little drunkenness in the neigh
borhood OF the polls.
SOME WHO DIDN'T VOTE.
When the polls closed at 6 O'Clock there
were good many waiting to cast their
ballots. They had delayed too long, how
ever. The total number of ballots cast
was 2, 145. In box No. l there were I'll
box No. ?, $40; in No. 3, 4O3, and in No.
4, 52l.
The first thing which the Judges did
after the boxes were closed was To take
the boxes up into the City Court room,
leave them IN the custody of the Sheriff
and go TO supper.
BEGINNING THE COUNT.
At 1880 O'Clock the sorting of the bal
lots began and by O'Clock everything
was ready for the count, which began at
$3.50. At midnight two boxes had been
finished and the count of the third box
was begun. 1t was finished few
minutes after 2, and the managers were
soon at work on the last box. IL
was o'clock before the lest ballot was
counted, and the returns then had to be
made up. The court room was crowded
during the early part OF the night, but
after midnight 1t began to thin out and
there were not more than dozen people
in the room when the count was finished.
The full vote was as follows:
CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Barnard K. Bee.... .......................2.l l6
SHERIFF..
John i. Ronan.... ........ a..............2,0S 9
RECEIVER OF TAX RETURNS.
Duhu hllluAs.ss ,4du
Nj. j. Dooner ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I'll
Ttttiio-A1 LECTOR.
Jamaa 7 McGo,ran 1-sicK, Hnu fOjA > o-o
COUNTY TREAsUREhIN
Waring Russell ................ ...A "a $40
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
JOhu H. ACoeau t-..--- '.s'....s-s....s.. q plJ
CORONER. ReeI
William ID. ID. xon. Observation-Disclosures. Nee
Joseph Ooette. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 14l
JOuu II. TON -...-..-.......... 6O2
Dillon's majority over Dooner was 7l9.
DiXOnss majority over Goethe WAS T3